[ale] OT: gas going up this weekend

[Tom Freeman]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Geoffrey Myers wrote:

> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, The Don Lachlan <ale-at-ale.org
>> <http://ale-at-ale.org>@unpopularminds.org <http://unpopularminds.org>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Georgia used to have very inexpensive gas. Now, it's the higher side
>>     of average and the national average is between 3 and 4 times what it
>>     was 10
>>     years ago.
>>
>> National average (today) is $3.88 and Ga is $3.76. We're still lower
>> than average and the new tax bit won't change that.
>>
>>  http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp
>
> You know what they say about average?  A guy is standing with one foot
> in a bucket of frozen water, the other foot in boiling water.  On
> average he should be okay. ;)
>
> Personally, being below average doesn't comfort me.  I think the price
> of gas is too high.  I don't know who to blame.  It sucks.

The price of gas is too high compared to what? I usually feel like they 
should pay me to use their product because I'm such an all round stalwart 
fellow and great person 8-).

Somehow, it doesn't seem to work that way.